Biogenic volatile organic compounds in the Earth system
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Summary Biogenic volatile organic compounds produced by plants are involved in plant growth, development, reproduction and defence. They also function as communication media within plant communities, between plants and between plants and insects. Because of the high chemical reactivity of many of these compounds, coupled with their large mass emission rates from vegetation into the atmosphere, they have significant effects on the chemical composition and physical characteristics of the atmosphere. Hence, biogenic volatile organic compounds mediate the relationship between the biosphere and the atmosphere. Alteration of this relationship by anthropogenically driven changes to the environment, including global…
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- Biosphere
- Atmosphere (unit)
- Environmental chemistry
- Environmental science
- Vegetation (pathology)
- Global change
- Earth (classical element)
- Ecology
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